Among an author's most dreaded readers, their parents rank perhaps most highly. Megan Nolan once stated that her main fear is not scornful strangers but subjecting her parents to her fiction; while RO Kwon insists she would keep her books away from all kin if she could.
In Jo Hamya's well-aimed second novel, The Hypocrite, a young woman's writing broaches decades-old conversations that push her family relationships to ruin's edge. At its centre, a chauvinistic, middle-aged male novelist is publicly lampooned by his own daughter.
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